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He alerted the Environment Agency who discovered that Zenith had paid Calam’s Plymouth Skip Hire £245 to take it to an authorised site.

The company were left another £500 out of pocket after agreeing to pay to have it removed, even though the fly tipping was not their fault.

Calam, aged 21, of Seaview Avenue, Plymouth, denied two counts of disposing of controlled waste at Pudson Farm, Okehampton between December 12, 2016 and February 27, 2017.

He was found guilty of one charge which related to rubbish picked up from building sites in Plymouth by is firm, Plymouth Skip Hire.

He was fined £2,000 with £2,000 costs and £260 compensation and ordered to attend an thinking skills course by Judge Peter Ralls, QC, at Exeter Crown Court.

The judge decided not to activate a previous one year suspended sentence from Plymouth Crown Court for unrelated cases of dangerous driving, driving while disqualified and without licence or insurance.

He told him:"The farmer was prevented from having proper access to his fields and this waste was no doubt an eyesore to the public in a sensitive area.

"You took the opportunity to make more money for your business by not disposing of waste legally."

Miss Katie Churcher, defending, said Calam has stayed out of trouble since committing these offences in February last year and has started a new vehicle recovery business from which he earns £1,000 to £1,500 a month.

She said he has no paperwork to confirm his income because it was all inside a truck which was burned out three weeks ago.